CH 97

Sasha graduated from the Academy of Magic two years before.

She was the third daughter of a viscount family, and after her graduation, she attended the royal palace for learning etiquette and manners through apprenticeship while trying to find a husband to marry into the family. 

Considering that she was looking for a husband, she was assigned to the knight’s wing as a high ranking maid, but after seeing the reality of the bachelor residence that was sweaty, crude, dirty, annoying, big, and scary – in the end, she lost her desire to marry.

Then and there, Sasha changed the dream of her future and decided to serve by the side of an adorable lady and fulfilled her life as a super lady-in-waiting, and she applied to the recruitment that happened to be looking for a lady in waiting for a duke family’s eldest daughter which led to now. 

She enjoyed reading and theatergoing, and she joined the fan club of a female-only opera company. She apparently was a fan of the opera company’s knight and princess’s tragic love play, and her school friend said she maybe was fantasizing about the beautiful woman who was disguised as a knight.

“And that’s what I had investigated about Sasha, Diana-sama.” 

“Thank you! Il-kun”

Diana clenched her fist in triumph after hearing findings about Sasha.

She spent her time as a lady in the presence of others perfectly, so Ilvalino didn’t say anything about small things like clenching her fists when others were not around. 

“If she likes a knight played by a beautiful woman, don’t you think a female knight would be her delight?”

“I’m not sure about calling it a delight… but well, there may be such a possibility.”

“If I lend her the girl knight Nina book and she read it, would she become our ally?” 

“That’s a bit simplistic, don’t you think… It’s not like Diana-sama can openly call yourself a girl knight.”

“Hmm.”

Diana groaned as she crossed her arms and tilted back her head. In order to pull Sasha to their side, she wanted to confess that being a lady was an alias to present to the world, and in reality, she was a girl knight (aiming to be one). However, she was Sasha, who was as strict in etiquette and manners as Professor Cyrus.

“In order to get her to accept the alias and the true self, there’s no other way but to get closer to her or to get a hold of her weakness, right?” 

“I wonder if getting hold of her weakness is the best option. I don’t recommend it very much. It’s difficult to build trust in that relationship, so when push comes to shove, there is a possibility that you may be betrayed.”

“Despite holding her weakness?” 

“There is a possibility that she may betray us if the same weakness is held on by someone of a more powerful existence. Or if someone appears and is tempting her by offering to solve the weakness, then definitely we would be betrayed.”

“Hmm. Then I guess the option to get closer to her is better.”

“If theatergoing is her hobby, what about going to the theater together? If she goes to the theater as the escort to Diana-sama, the duke will bear the cost so Sasha would be pleased too.”

Theatergoing was a costly hobby. The ticket price per performance may be fairly high, but depending on the rank of the theater, there was also a dress code, so it seemed that it was not something you can go in everyday clothes. Among the women who enjoyed watching theater, “Oh, that person is wearing the same dress from the last performance. Ohoho.” or “Today’s performance is a tragedy, so a sorrowful blue dress is fitting. Ohoho.” – so money also needed to be spent in these kinds of show-off battles that had nothing to do with the theater

If it was the escort to theatergoing as the lady-in-waiting to the mistress, it was normal to watch the play in the maid outfit which was the provided uniform, and if it was the theatergoing of a duke family’s eldest daughter, the lady would be watching the play from a good seat so the attending lady-in-waiting would also be watching from a good seat.

Of course, you would have to care for the mistress, such as preparing tea during breaks and the likes of it, but for someone whose hobby was theatergoing, it can be concluded that there were more benefits. Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com

“I wonder if there is a play about Goro-ko- doing Shokokumanyu.”

“…I wonder. I’ll look it up, but it probably doesn’t exist. Because that’s Cain-sama’s story.”

Far from a theatergoing, there was not even a book about the world-changing story that Cain had told. Diana and Ilvalino searched Cain’s bookshelf, the library of the mansion, and the library of the royal capital, but couldn’t find any books on the world-changing story. It was impossible for a story without even a source to be the subject of a play.

“I thought of something good!!”

Diana opened her eyes and screamed while clapping her hands. When Cain thought of an idea, he always said this, so Diana was also influenced by it. Ilvalino now heard this line more often from Diana.

“Just to confirm. What kind of plan is it?”

“If you don’t have what you want, then you can just create it!”

“….. Create a play?”

“Yes!”

“Wouldn’t it be difficult to create a play…”

“That’s why we’re going to make the book first. Let’s make an alias to present to the world that Brother taught us – into a book.” 

Saying that, Diana took out from her desk a bundle of paper she was using for her studies that were bound by a string on one side.

“First of all, let’s correctly remember the story that Brother told us. Then, if we buy the white papers for manuscripts and copy it there, we can make it into a book.”

“Oh, I see. We just need to have one book for Sasha to read.”

“That’s right!”

Gaining the support from Ilvalino, Diana grinned while handing the stack of papers to Ilvalino

“…I have a bad feeling, but what is the meaning of this?”

“Di will write Goro-ko- and the playboy Go-ruden, so Il will write down The Rampage King, okay.”

“What…”

Ilvalino, who was forced to take the bundle of paper in his hand and assigned the work, had a discontent look on his face.

“Diana-sama will be the one who makes the clean copy of the manuscript, right?”

“Il-kun has good handwriting so no problem!”

“What…” 

“Come now, Sasha will be back soon. Clean up, clean up! I have to pretend to be studying!”

Sasha was out on an errand ordered by Diana. 

As she was aiming to be the super lady-in-waiting, Sasha was strict about Diana’s etiquette but she was also strict with herself about her role as a lady-in-waiting. 

She anticipated and prepared beforehand what she thought Diana would want, or prepared clothes that suited her mood for the day – she seemed to want to do the kind of thing that was considered sensible, so she was always observing Diana. 

However, at the time being, the rate of understanding what she wanted when Diana said “Take that.” was 100% for Ilvalino and about 40% for Sasha. For that reason, Ilvalino had been regarded as a rival by Sasha.

When she was ordered by Diana to do errands, she wanted to show that “Other than what you ordered, I also had finished these errands.”, so her return was often a little late.

“I wonder what Sasha will do today?”

“I asked her to send out a letter, so after that, she will probably buy the letter papers for next time I’m writing?”

“The scented ink for the letter to Cain-sama is running low, so she might buy more of that.” 

“Oh, that’s right. I’d be happy if she bought it. I write a lot of letters so it’ll be gone soon.”

Speaking of the devil, as Diana and Ilvalino were talking about Sasha, Sasha said “I have returned.” before entering the room. 

Sasha bought hand cream for Diana’s finger, which had calluses due to her overwriting from her studies and writing letters. 

Diana and Ilvalino signaled with their eyes, “I wasn’t expecting that.” without saying it out loud, while saying “Welcome back.” to Sasha.